The island of Dr. Berners-Lee
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Answers from six veterans of the Internet, who develop the technology and online publication, games and marketing campaigns, to questions on their tools and business are presented. The developers agree that the Web is difficult to define and that both start-up and established companies must work hard to keep pace with the rapid changes on the Web. The developers further agree that the Web page itself is an evolving form, with some companies focusing on content, while others choose to create eye-catching designs. The Web page must be adjusted to suit the target market, and it cannot remain static, or it will lose visitors. Participants claim that 3D images will be prevalent on the Web in the future, but the technology is currently not strong enough to support widespread 3D use, in large part because browsers are incapable of handling 3D images rapidly enough. The difficulty of establishing a brand identity on the Web is also discussed.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1996
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3-D graphics accelerators target consumers
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New graphics boards are making 3-D gaming possible on the PC. New offerings give the PC the same power as 32-bit dedicated game machines from Sony or Sega. The new accelerator boards offer very fast rendering and high frame rates, good color depth and high resolution. The boards also offer outstanding 3-D effects, such as texture mapping and Gouraud shading. Creative Labs' $349 3D Blaster is capable of displaying 200,000 triangles per second. It has 2MB of memory and permits 16-bit Z-buffering, which lets it track hidden moving objects. Diamond's Diamond Edge 3D, priced between $249 and $449, takes a new approach to 3-D, based on quadratic curved surfaces. It defines nine control points to display the curved surface with a good level of realism. The quadratic approach takes away some of the burden from the CPU, and provides a faster frame rate and allows more manipulation of the graphics. A directory of available boards is included.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1995
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Netscape shapes the Webscape
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Netscape Communications is dominating World Wide Web news. The start-up was founded by Marc Andreessen, designer of the original NCSA Mosaic browser, and Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics. The company is poised for incredible growth, and Wall Street is watching in anticipation. Established companies are interested in getting any part of Netscape they can, and five well-known companies combined to make an 11 percent investment in the company. Three of the companies, Hearst, Knight-Ridder and Times Mirror, are likely to use Netscape technology for on-line ventures. Netscape has also announced an alliance with Sun Microsystems, where Sun will integrate Netscape Navigator software into Sun's server software. Netscape's Navigator software holds 75 percent of the market, although the company is depending on its Netsite server and applications solutions to attract larger corporate clients.
Publication Name: Newmedia
Subject: Computers and office automation industries
ISSN: 1060-7188
Year: 1995
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